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24 alternatives to Pie – an idiomatic C++ interface to CPython's C API
I recently needed to add support for Python plugins in a C++ application I am developing. CPython's C API is pretty cool, but it's a C API. I wanted something more C++-ey, so I wrote Pie. https://github.com/ronmrdechai/Pie
Pie is a C++ library that wraps CPython's C API with idiomatic C++ interfaces. It enables developers to embed Python plugins in C++ applications without directly using CPython's C API. The library simplifies… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pie – an idiomatic C++ interface to CPython's C API launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN, OpenAI recently released a model for automatic speech recognition called Whisper [0]. I decided to reimplement the inference of the model from scratch using C/C++. To achieve this I implemented a minimalistic tensor library in C and ported the high-level architecture of the model in C++. The entire code is less than 8000 lines of code and is contained in just 2 source files without any third-party dependencies. The Github project is here: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp With this implementation I can very easily build and run the model - “make…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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C parser and interpreter written in Python with automatic ctypes interface generation - PyCParser/README.md at master · albertz/PyCParser
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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a lightweight web framework in c. Contribute to ashtonjamesd/lavandula development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I love C and C++, but setting up projects can sometimes be a pain. Every time I wanted to start something new I'd spend the first hour writing CMakeLists.txt, figuring out find_package, copying boilerplate from my last project, and googling why my library isn't linking. By the time the project was actually set up I'd lost all momentum. So, I built Craft - a lightweight build and workflow tool for C and C++. Instead of writing CMake, your project configuration goes in a simple craft.toml: [project] name = "my_app" version = "0.1.0" language = "c" c_standard = 99 [build] type = "executable"…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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org-babel integration with Jupyter for evaluation of (Python by default) code blocks - gregsexton/ob-ipython
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I’m hacking on new features for the ClickHouse native client and wanted the same “just call the model” ergonomics JavaScript and Python now enjoy. It didn’t exist for modern C++, so I wrote one. ai‑sdk‑cpp (Apache‑2.0) gives you: - Unified calls to OpenAI (GPT‑4o) and Anthropic (Claude 3.5) with a single C++20 API. - Streaming, multi‑turn chat, error handling—all std::optional/std::variant, no macros. - Tool calling (function‑calling) so the model can hit real APIs; sync or async, runs in parallel. The tricky bit: C++ still lacks real reflection, so mapping plain functions →…
2025 · its alternatives →
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I've created cppmatch, a lightweight, header-only C++ library that brings Rust-inspired pattern matching and error handling to C++. It tries to imitate the functionality of the questionmark (?) operator in C++ by using a macro that uses the gcc extension https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Exprs.html This allows to create exceptionless code with non-intrusive error-as-value that unlike Exceptions, makes it clear which kinds of error a function can generate and forces you to handle (or ignore) them. The ? operator translates to *expect* To handle the errors I…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A convenient C string API, friendly alongside classic C strings.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fast C based HTML 5 parsing for python. Contribute to kovidgoyal/html5-parser development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello and happy new year! We're excited to introduce the Pyper package for concurrency & parallelism in Python. Pyper is a flexible framework for concurrent / parallel data processing, following the functional paradigm. Source code can be found on [github](https://github.com/pyper-dev/pyper) Key features: Intuitive API: Easy to learn, easy to think about. Implements clean abstractions to seamlessly unify threaded, multiprocessed, and asynchronous work. Functional Paradigm: Python functions are the building blocks of data pipelines. Let's you write clean, reusable…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia. Contribute to pisa-engine/pisa development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Concurrency library for C (coroutines). Contribute to tidwall/neco development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News. I’m Martin, a graduate student from Prague, and I’ve been working on Coros, a C++ library for task-based parallelism. After spending some time with OpenMP and oneTBB, I wanted to try building a library using modern features from the C++ standard library. I’ve used coroutines for task encapsulation and C++23 expected for exception handling, while trying to maintain good performance. Additionally, I’ve implemented monadic-like behavior to allow easy chaining of tasks, similar to the monadic operations in std::expected. You can check out the project here:…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A reflection-based approach for generating Python/Lua/JS bindings for your C++ code - FranciscoThiesen/mirror_bridge
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A C++ HTML template engine that uses compile time HTML parsing - rep-movsd/see-phit
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Introducting C+▲1482012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Smart pointers for the (GNU) C programming language - Snaipe/libcsptr
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This weekend I created stacklib.h - a single-header library that brings Forth-style stack operations to C. It implements a basic interpreter with: - Stack operations (push/pop/dup/swap/over/drop) - Arithmetic (+, -, *, /) - Output (., emit, cr) - Stack inspection (.s, depth) Example usage: Stack s; stack_init(&s); dict_init(); exec(&s, "10 20 + ."); // Prints "30" exec(&s, "1 2 3 4 .s"); // Shows stack contents The library is self-contained, requires no dependencies, and handles basic error checking. It was inspired by wanting to understand…
2025 · its alternatives →
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2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An ChatGPT integration for Jupyter Notebooks and the IPython Shell - santiagobasulto/ipython-gpt
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cinder▲122Free and open source library for creative coding in C++
2017 · libcinder.org · its alternatives →
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